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LUTHER BADMAN KEITH PUTS
HIS OWN STAMP ON THE BLUES
His vocals have been compared to Jimi Hendrix, his
guitar style and energy to Luther Allison with a songwriting
gift and sense of humor all his own. All this from a guy who
didn’t pick up a guitar until he was past 30 years old and
didn’t play his first professional gig until he was well into
his 40s.
“No, it wasn’t a midlife crisis thing,” Keith explains, “It
just took me that long to figure out that playing the blues
was part of what I was born to do. It just wasn’t part of
my life plan when I started out. . The only thing I played
when I was growing up was the radio and baseball.”
The Badman has come a long way in a short time. Instead of
being a guy who grew up playing the guitar, Keith studied
journalism and was a successful newspaper executive and columnist.
He became a convert and an apostle for the blues after attending
a concert by the legendary Luther Allison and decided on the
spot that he wanted to become a bluesman.
“I was awful for a long time, but too stubborn to give up,”
he said. “One day someone said I was starting to sound decent
and I should put a band together and put out a CD.”
The rest, as the cliché goes, is history.
A native of Detroit, Keith released his third CD, Blues Nation,
to widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for two Detroit
Music Awards in 2011 (he now has five nominations). He has
won songwriter awards, represented Detroit as the city’s top
blues band at the International Blues Challenge and even played
for Morgan Freeman, a big blues fan, at the actor’s Ground
Zero blues club in Memphis.
Keith uses blues, funk and rock to craft songs that
put a smile on your face, like Menopause Woman or Barbecue
Baby, delves into the meaning of life with tunes like Life
got In The Way and What’s The Use, and flat out rocks on songs
like Blues Nation, Badman and What Happened to Rock N Roll.
On Blues Nation, Keith takes listeners on a sonic
journey across America, mixing Latin and Afro grooves, exploring
the impact of blues on lives and lifestyles in our nation.
He even created a Blues Anthem, mixing Muddy Waters with the
National Anthem, and a Blues Nation Pledge.
‘It might be called a mini-concept album,” Keith said.
“I mix a lot of styles but it all comes back to the
blues,” he added. “Blues is a lot like hot sauce. Whatever
you put it on, it’s gonna make it taste – or sound – better.
“I often get told by people that they don’t like
the blues, but they like what I do. I just try to be myself
and put my own flavor on the music.”
 Now
Available! ‘BLUES NATION,” THE NEW CD FROM LUTHER BADMAN KEITH
ON THE BMB RECORD LABEL.
FEATURES 15 ORIGINAL SONGS AND RECORDED
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY THE LATE, GREAT JAMES PAYTON ON SAXOPHONE
ALSO FEATURES ROCK-N-ROLL HALL OF FAME PERFORMERS, THE ORIGINALVANDELLAS
— Rosalind Holmes and Annette Helton
SPECIAL GUEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE BY
PAUL “BLUESMAN” MILES
DETROIT – It’s been a long time. Indeed it has. Seven years
to be exact since the release of Luther Badman Keith’s last
CD, Thunder In My Blues, which won widespread critical acclaim.
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The CD is now available Online - Click
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MAIL ORDERS OF THE CD BLUES NATION CAN BE MADE BY
SENDING
A CHECK FOR $15 PAYABLE TO:
BMB RECORDS
19521 BURLINGTON, DETROIT, MI. 48203.
EMAIL: badman@badmanbluz.com.
Booking Info: 313-407-6772
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